sung

/\ˈsʌŋ\/ verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#26,197

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sung is aFrenchverb. It means: Participe passé de sing. Pronounced \ˈsʌŋ\. Often confused with sur and sup.

Key facts for sung
PropertyValue
Headwordsung
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈsʌŋ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#26,197
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sung in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sung is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈsʌŋ\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,197 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe passé de sing.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for sung, with forms such as "snug", "ssung", and "sugn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sur", "sup", "sus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sung, spelled S-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé de sing.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: snug,ssung,sugn,sungg,sunng,usng

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sung

Misspelling Variants of "sung"

snug4ssung5sugn4sungg5sunng5usng4
Misspelling Variants of "sung"

Frequency rank: #26,197 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sung"?
"sung" is spelled S-U-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈsʌŋ\.
What does "sung" mean?
As a verb, "sung" means: Participe passé de sing.
What words are commonly confused with "sung"?
"sung" is commonly confused with "sur", "sup", "sus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sung"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sung" is \ˈsʌŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sung" come from?
"sung" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.